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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JAMES C. ANDERSON, or JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

MACHINE FOR WINDING AND INSULATING ELECTRIC coins.

, SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 654,583, dated July 31, 1900. I

Application filed February 7, 1900- Serial No. 4,381. (No model.)

To an Whom. it may concern/.-

Ilteit known that I, J AMES 0. ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of Newdersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic \Vinding- Machines, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to means for winding material in the form of fibers, filaments, strands, or strips into coils, bobbins, helices, or other formation produced by superposing the convolutions and for applying or introducing sheet material, such as paper or textile fabric, at intervals in the coil or bobbin for the purpose of separating, protecting, or restraining the convolutions thereof.

The object of the invention is to provide a machine by which this work can be effectively, rapidly, and cheaply accomplished.

In carrying out the invention a machine has been produced for the specific purpose of winding wire into coils, bobbins, or helices and introducing at intervals therein sheets of paper, and such a machine forms the subject of the detailed description which follows hereinafter; but it will be understood that this machine is selected only as one example of what may be done with fibers, filaments, or strands in conjunction with sheet material and thatthe invention extends to the use of the machinefor winding fibers, filaments, strands, or strips of any other material or combinations of material and for introducing into or upon the body of the coil, bobbin, or helix sheet material of any character or construction.

The wire coils or helices wound by the machine herein described are intended for electrical purposes, so that the various convolutions thereof must be insulated from each other and maintained in an insulated or isolated state. One of the advantages of the present invention is the fact that it is possible to wind naked wire, and therefore at once eliminate the cost of covering or insulating the wire before it is wound into the coil. This is accomplished partly by the fact of the sheets of paper which are inserted by the ma.- cliine between every two layers of wire and D -1y by the fact of alternating with the wire a thread of insulating material, so that the convolutions of wire in any given layer are insulated by the inter-wound convolutions of insulating material,while the convolutions of wire in one layer are insulated from those in adjacent layers by the interposed paper sheet. It is a comparatively-simple problem to wind successive layers of wire either with or without the interwound silk or other insulating thread; but to introduce between each. layer the sheet of paper or other insulating material automatically and without stopping or slowing up the rotation of the winding-spindle, and'to provide for the necessarily-increasin g length of such sheets, due to the increase in diameter of the coil, and to provide for the proper feeding of the paper to the rotating cell, which gradually increases in diameter, are problems which are not so easily solved, but which are solved by this invention.

In this machine one or a plurality of helices maybe wound simultaneously, and as the latter plan turns out the work more rapidly it is, of course, preferable. \Vhen a number of coils are wound simultaneously, a single.

tube, core, or spindle common to all of them is used, and the Wire is wound upon it on slightlyseparated zones and each insulating sheet of paper is common to all the coilsthat is to say, it fivecoils are wound simultaneously upon the machine a layer on each coilv is finished at the same instant and at that instant a sheet of paper wide enough to extend throughout the five coils-and long enough to surround the coils and slightly overlap is inserted, and these successive sheets of paper, together with the central spindle upon which all the coils are wound, serve to mechanically-connect all of the coils together, and they may all be removed from the machine at the same time, after which,"

for commercial purposes, the several couneoted coils may be separated into individual coils by cutting or sawing through the several sheets of paper and the central core exposed between the zones occupied by the coils.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of the entire machine; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the entire machine with parts of the frame broken away. Fig. 3 is a side elevation'of the entire machine on a small scale. Fig. 4 is a plan of the machine with the carloo riage removed. Fig. 5 is a section on line w x of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a section on line y y of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a detail of Fig. 6. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the carriage and its attachments enlarged. Fig. 8 is a side elevation opposite that of Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a vertical section on line z z of Fig. 7 looking rearward. Fig. 10 is a section on line z z of Fig. 7 looking forward. Figs. 11, 12, 13, and 14 are longitudinal sections of the carriage with some parts removed for clearness. Figs. 13 and 13 are details of the paper-injecting mechanism. Figs. 15"and 16 are side elevations of the carriage, showing its different positions when at the beginning and ending of the coil. Fig. 17 is a section, enlarged, of a single coil or helix made on this machine; and Fig. 18 is a diagram representing the shifting of the position of the tangent-point between the strands of wire leading to the coil and the surface of the coil.

Referring to the drawings, in which figures are used for reference, 1 indicates the main frame 'of the machine, consisting, essentially, of a platform or table standing on legs.

2 is a shaft mounted beneath the table in brackets 3, near the front thereof, upon which is a loose driving-pulley 4, receiving power by belt from the source ofpower which actuates the machine. This pulley runs constantly, and next to it, fixed to the shaft, is a pulley 5, from which the machine is directly driven by belt 6, said pulley 5 being driven byfrictional engagement with the pulley 4, which is accomplished by forcing the shaft to which pulley 5 is rigidly connected over to the left until it bears against the pulley 4, the frictional contact occurring between the rims of the two pulleys, as indicated at 7, and the pulley 4 being held in position by the bracket 3, against which its hub rests. Other pulleys 8 and 9 are mounted on the shaft :3; but as they play no part in the action of the machine, as herein described, they will not be further referred to. The belt 6 extends through the table of the machine and drives a pulley 10 on a counter-shaft 11, mounted in a supplemental box-like frame 12. An extension of this shaft to the right and across the front of the machine constitutes a winding-spindle 13, upon which the material is to be wound in the process of making the coils. The outer end of this winding-spindle when in action is supported by a center bearing 14,

carried at the upper end of a block 15, which is pivoted to a part of the frame on the stud 16, a spring 17 serving to hold the point 14 against the end of the spindle. By swinging this block in a plane at right angles to the spindle the end of the spindle is uncovered to permit of a tube or core being slipped on or oif from it.

- 18 is a latch-bolt passing through the block 15 and adapted to enter an opening in the frame to prevent the block from swinging on its pivot 16 when in its working position and must be withdrawn before the block can be swung. At the other end of the spindle is a pair of spring-jaws 209, which may be set up' by a screw 210. This serves as a clutch for holding'the center tube or core upon which the strands are wound.

On the shaft 11, to the left of the pulley 10 and inside of the frame 12, is a worm 19, engaging with a worm-gear 20 on a shaft 21, standing at right angles to shaft 11 and running toward the rear of the machine. This shaft has its bearing in the frame 12 and in another supplemental frame 22. Shaft 21 passes between two horizontal worm-gears 23 and 24 and engages both of them by means of a worm 25, which it carries. These gears are fixed on short vertical shafts 26 and 27, respectively, which therefore rotate constantly in opposite directions. Above each of the gears 23 and 24 and on their respective shafts are the spur-gears 28 and 29, having frictional clutch-faces 30, with which they are adapted to engage with corresponding faces on the respective worm-gears, so that said spur-gears may be driven by the worm-gears, said spur-gears being loose on the shafts 26' and 27, but adapted to slide vertically thereon. Both spur-gears are constantly in mesh with a rack-bar 30, arranged horizontally and fitted in a slideway in the frame 22. The width of the teeth of the rack is sufficient to allow the spur-gears to move into and out of frictional engagement with the worm-gears without moving out of mesh with the rack. Thus it will be seen that since the shafts 26 and 27 are driven in opposite directions the direction in which the rack 30 will travel at any given time depends upon which of the spur-gears is in engagement with its corresponding worm-gear, and the arrangement is such, as will be hereinafter described, that only one of the spur-gears will be connected to its worm-gear at the same time. The spurgears are shifted vertically by means of pivoted levers 31 and 32, the free ends of which extend forward horizontally and engage with upright arms 33 and 34, carrying circular straps 35, embracing eccentrics 36 36 on a shaft 37, which intermittently makes half-rotations. Theeccentriosareoppositelyplaced, so that at each half-rotation of the shaft 37 one of the levers 31 and 32 will be lifted and the other lowered to effect the engagement and disengagement of the spur and worm gears.

Shaft 21 carries bevel-pinion 38, which engages pinion 39 on a short shaft 40, carrying a spur-gear 41', which engages with a pinion 42 on the shaft 37. Pinion 42 is connected with shaft 37 through a spring-dru m 43, with which 125 it makes a frictional engagement throuN outer end to the drum and at its inner end/ to the shaft. The pinion 42 is rotated constantly by the gearing behind it, and the drum is rotated by the pinion until the tension of the spring 47 overcomes the frictional engagement between the pinion and the drum, after which the drum remains stationary and the pinion slips. On the outer end of shaft 37 is fixed a disk 48 andloosely upon the shaftv beside it is a weighted disk 49. To the outside of the disk 49 are pivoted two arms 50, having eccentric faces held in contact with the rim of disk 48 by springs 51. Thus when the shaft 37 makes its half-rotations in the manner hereinafter described the arms 50 grip the disk 48 and the weighted disk 49 is carried with the shaft. At the end of such half-rotation the inertia of the weighted disk tends to carry itfarther, and it is permitted to do so because the arms 50 do not grip when the disk 49 continues in the same direction in which the shaft started it.

the width of one in the direction of the shaft commencing in the same plane where the width of the other ends. In conjunction with these wings a movable stop acts to control the intermittent half-rotations of the shaft 37. This movable step consists of a lever 54, pivoted to the table at 55 and adapted to vibrate in a horizontal plane. The forward endof this lever is fiat and adapted to engage with either of the wings 52 53, depending upon its position. In its vibrations it moves outfrom under one of the stops, thus permitting shaft.

tent Whichit unw'inds', and. this it does each released.

Unless some provision was made for preventing a sharp stroke of the wingsupon the end of the stop-lever 54 either the-wings or the lever would soon break, as the constant hammering would shatter any structure that could conveniently be used. To prevent such a result is one of the objects of the weighted wheel .49. The action of the spring upon the shaft 37 when a wing is released is very powerful; but instead of merely carrying the wings around it must also start the weighted wheel from its position of rest. This very much weakens the blow of the wing. It is better to apply a large force to the shaft and retard the movement created by such force than it is to use a smaller force'and allow-it to act quickly, for with an abundance of power retardations due to momentary extra friction or additional load from any cause. are relatively of less importance. Another function time somewhat before a wing on the shaft is of the weighted wheel 49 is to insure that the Shaft 37 carries two flat wings 52 and 53, lo- .cated one hundred and eighty degrees apart,

movement of the shaft 37 shall occupy an ap preciable amount of time, so that certain vmovements and operations of the machine which are accomplished by and simultaneously with this movement of the shaft will have time enough to be accomplished nicely. The impetus given to the weighted wheel in its half-rotation starts. it spinning around but it comes to a gradual stop before the next half-rotation of the shaft. These half-rotations of the shaft are directly instantaneous. Each time the movement of .the shaft takes place the eccentrics 36 36 act to shift the clutch connections between the spur and worm gears, and thus reverse the direction of movement of the rack-bar 30.

Shaft 37 extends to the right to about the middle of the table, where it carries a doublelobedcam 56, the periphery of which rests against a curved lever 57, pivoted to the top of the table and extending upward therereferred to.

Over the right-hand end of the table is mounted a boat-shaped carriage 58, consisting of two parallel side pieces connected together across the ends and middle,'all of the parts making up the carriage being indicated by the same figure 58. The front side of this carriage is located above the front edge of the main table immediately back of the windingspindle 13. The carriage is mounted outrunnions 59 59, which have their hearings in bolsters 6O '60, resting upon the table. The trunnions are formed by the projecting ends of a tube which extends transversely through the carriage, and through this tube the rackbar 30, which is extended inthe form of a rod 61, passes and projects beyond the right-hand side of the carriage. The carriage is adapted to partake of a movement upon its trunnions which at its forward ends is substantially equal to the depth of the helix or helices to be wound, this swinging movement being adjustable for different sizes of helices. The rod 61 in passing through the-trunnions of the carriage doesnot interfere with this movement of .the carriage, nor is its own reciprocating motion interfered with bythe movement of the carriage. The extreme righthand end of the rod61 carriesa block 62, to which are pivoted two rods 63 and 64, extending the former rearward and downward from the block and the latter forward and upward from the block alongside of the carriage. Rod 63 passes loosely through a sleeve 65 and loosely through anotherpsleeve 66 at its extremity, the latter sleeve being pivoted to a rod 67, slidingin bracket-bearings 68, depend ing from the under side of the carriage at the rear. The sleeve is pivotally attached to a yoke 69, carried bya block forming part of a rectangular sleeve 70. This sleeve is adjustable upon a bar 71 in a manner to be hereinafter described, and the bar is attached to the side of the carriage by means of a bracket 72. The rod 6t also passes through a loose sleeve 73, similarly connected with an adjustable block 7t on the bar 71; also, the rod 64 at its extremity passes loosely through a sleeve 75, which is pivotally connected with a guide-rod 76, mounted across the front of the carriage in bearings 77 and parallel to, just above, and to the rear of the windingspindle 13. The connection between the rackbar 61 and the block 62 is in the nature of a swivel, so as to permit the rods 63 and 64 to swing with the rod without twisting the rod. The construction of the block 62 is shown in section in Fig. 9. The end of the rod passes freely into the block and is held therein by an axial screw 78, passing through the end of the block and entering a threaded hole in the end of the rod. The screw is held from longitudinal motion by the collar 79 and the nut 80. Besides furnishing this swivel connection this construction also afiords a means for setting the inner ends of the rods 63 and 64. inward or outward with respect to the rod 61, for a purpose which will hereinafter appear. It will now be seen that the reciprocations of the main actuating-rod 61 will pass through the rods 63 and 64, causing the rod 67 at the rear'and the rod 76 at the front of the earriage, respective] y, to reciprocate,and that the extent of movement of the rods 67 and 76 can be adjusted by shifting the adjustable sleeves 70 and 71 toward or away from the axis of the carriage. The strands of copper or other material which the machine is to wind onto the spindle 13 are guided by suitable guiding devices, to be hereinafter described, fixed upon the rod 76; The rate of travel of this rod 76 in its reciprocation determines the number of turns per inch in the layer, and the length of the reciprocations of the rod 76 determines the length of the layer of winding in the coil or coils, and consequently the length of the finished coil, since one layer is wound directly upon the other.

In the drawings I have shown the rod 76 equipped with five guiding devices for the material to be wound, which indicates that the machine is adapted to wind five coils simultaneously; but it will be understood that the operation is the same whether one or more coils are-wound and that the number of guiding devices on the rod 76, and consequently the number of coils that may be wound on the machine, may be increased to any practicable extent. The guiding devices referred to consist of brackets 81, clamped upon rod '76 and having two arms 82 and 83, occupying an angular position with respect to each other and carrying at their extremities grooved guide-wheels 84 and 85, respectively. The

wire, silk thread, or other material to be wound leads from spools in a spool-rack (not shown) over elevated rails 87, thence down and over. the front of wheel 84, around the back of wheel 85, and thence to the windingspind'le 13. In the drawings 1 have shown two strands running to each guiding device, which indicates that a bare copper wire and a silk thread are wound side by side in each layer of the coil, the silk thread serving as the insulator between adjacent con volutions of wire.

For adjusting the sleeves 7O 74 along the bar 71 I use a threaded rod 86, passing longitudinally through the bar, which is hollow, and through a nut 87, attached to the sleeve 7 4, and another threaded rod 88, passing similarly through a nut carried by the sleeve 70. These two rods project through the forward end of the bar and are there adapted to re ceive a key or wrench by which the adj ustments may be made.

The reciprocating rod 67 at the rear of the carriage carries a rack 89 and at its extreme left end carries a block 90, provided with a notch forminga kind of hook which engages an elongated pin 91, held between the arms of a yoke 92 on the end of lever 54. This construction allows the rod 67 to move with the carriage without becoming disengaged from lever 54. It will'now be understood how the stop-lever 54 is thrown into the path first of one of the wings 52 and then of the other. In front of the rod 67 stands a bracket 93, depending from the under side of the carriage, in which is mounted on cone-bearings a short vertical shaft 91, carrying a pinion 95, engaging the rack 89. This shaft 94 also carries a long crank-arm 96, which swings in a horizontal plane through an arc of about three hundred degrees, being actuated by the rack and pinion first in one direction and then in the other. (See Fig. 12.) To the end of this crank is attached connecting-rod 97, extending toward the front of the carriage, where it is pivotally attached to the lower end of a post 98, depending from the under side of a slide 99. This slide is a skeleton frame extending across the width of the carriage and adapted to run in grooves 100, formed on each side thereof. Post 98 carries a laterally-projecting pin 101 for a purpose which will hereinafter appear. The slide is carried back and forth along the carriage a definite distance by the swinging of the crank 96. The rear end of the slide 99 carries a bridging cross-piece 102, somewhat elevated above the main part of the slide, upon the top of which at the middle is placed a block 103, through which a pin 'lOt loosely extends in a fore-and-aft direction, and immediately under the pin is a forwardly-extending hook 105, the engaging side of which is underneath. The pin is provided with a pair of adjusting-nuts 106, between which and the block 103 is a spring'l07, tending to hold the pin in its extreme forward position. On each end of the cross-piece 102,

' slide 99 the pin 112 of one crank strikes a stop 116, to be hereinafter described, and oscillates therod, causing the pin on the othercrank to engage and push a rod 117, also to be described hereinafter. (See Figs. 7 and 11.) On this rod 110there is alsoa weighted arm 118,whieh returns the two cranks to their normal posi-' tion when they are free to be moved and which holds said cranks in their normal position by resting upon the cross-piece 102.

In addition to the slide 99 the carriage earries another slide 119, which moves in a plane parallel to that of the slide 99 and just above it, its guiding-grooves being indicated by 120. The sides of this slide rise considerably high above the carriage to carry the bearings of various cross-shafts. Across the rear of'this slide is mounted a shaft 121, which extendsthrough one of the side pieces of the slide and carries a bevel-pinion 122, engaging with a similar pinion 123 on a shaft 124. This shaft has its bearing at one end in a bracket 125, fixed to the side of slide 119, and at the other end passes through a bearing 126, attached to a bracket 127, fixed to the carriage. Beyond the bearin g 126 the shaft carries a bevel-pinion 128,through which it is adapted to slide,the pinion being splined upon the shaft. Pinion 128 engages another pinion 129, mounted on the end of a shaft 130, extending across and above the carriage and mounted in brackets 127 and 131 on "opposite sides of the machine. Shaft carries two downwardly-depending arms 132 132, the ends of which are adapted to be struck by the slide 99 near the end of its rearward movement and so oscillate shaft 130. This oscillation will through the bevelgearing described be imparted to the shaft 121. The ends of arms 132 have adjustable screws to closely time the moment of contact of the slide 99. The oscillating shaft 121 carries two arms 133 133, extending forward in the slide 119 and forming a yoke to carry a knife-holding bar 134. This bar runsin vertical guides 135 in the side pieces of the slide and extends across the front of said slide, its connection with the arms 133 being by means of pin and slot to allow for the circular mo-' tion of the arms. A'knife 136 is secured to the face of the holder 134' and is adaptedto be carried downward to cut in front of the forward edge of a plate 137, over which the paper is led, as hereinafter described. The shape of, the edge of this knife 136 is peculiar and ofsome importance. It will be seen that the edge inclines downward from each'side toward the middle and suddenly terminates in a'sharp' point. (See Fig. 10.) The knife of the sheet of paper which it is designed to sever and then cut outward in both directions to the edge. The action of the knife upon the paper in cutting in this way tends to slightly stretch the paper in the direction of its width and hold it flat against the plate until the cut is completed. The power required at any moment during the cutting operation is small, and if a shearing out were made by a straight bladefrom one side of the sheet to the other the tendency would be to buckle the sheet laterally.

Across the topof the slide 119 is mounteda shaft 138, with its bearings in the side pieces of the slide and carrying a crank-arm 139 at each end and extending downward to form a yoke, between the ends of which is pivoted a frame 140, carrying a transverse roller. 141, having a rubber or other grippingsurface resting upon the table 137, over which the paper leads, as will hereinafter appear. One end of this roller carries a ratchet-wheel with fine teeth, with which engages a spring-pawl 142, the roller being permitted thereby to roll upon the table when it is carried backward by the yoke 139 and prevented from rolling when it is carried forward by said yoke. The frame 140 has a tailpiece 143, to which is attached a spring 144, tending to hold the roller againstthe table. One of the arms 139 is connected to the rod 117, which rod, as before dc.- scribed, is adapted to be thrust forward by the impact of the pin 115 in the crank 114, carried by slide 99. The rod 117 passes through a bearing and has an adjustable stoppingcollar 146 to limit the rearward stroke. Shafts 121 and 138 each have cranks connected together by a spring 147, which serves the double function of lifting the knife after the cutting operation and throwing the roller 141 backward after it has been thrus't forward by the, rod 117.

i In the lowerand rearward portion of the slide 119 is mounted a cross-shaft 148, having its bearings in the side pieces of the slide, at the.

der 151, against which the forward end of the pin104 is adapted to strike when the slide 99 travels forward with respect tothe slide 119. When the pin strikes the bell-crank in this way, the hook 150 is brought up against the shank of hook 105, thus slightly oscillating shaft 148 and bringing the books into such relation that when the slide 99 starts to draw away from slide 1 19 the latter slide will be carried with the former. Shaft 148 extends through the side piece of the slide 1'19 and carries a forwardlyextending crank-arm 152, having a pin 153 at its outer end adapted to rest upon an inclined plate 154, secured to a triangular plate 155,

which is connected to the side of the carriage by headed pins 156, passing through slots in'the plate. At .an intermediate poini between the three pins 156 the plate has a laterally-projecting pin 157, which is seated so as to turn freely between adjustable screws 158 in a bracket 159, attached to the bed-plate upon which the carriage rests. It will be seen that as the pin 153 in the end of crankarm 152 travels rearward upon the incline 154 the arm will be gradually thrown toward a horizontal position and will oscillate the shaft-148 to the same extent, the incline being such that finally the hook 150 will he carried out of engagement with the hook 105. In the forward movement of the slide 119 the pin in crank-arm 152 will travel down the incline, remaining in contact therewith by the fact of the pin 104 pressing against shoulder 151 of the bell-crank.

It has been stated that the carriage swings on its trunnions slightly during the process of winding the coils, the forward portion of the carriage being lowest at the beginning of the operation and gradually rising during the formation of the layers until it is at its highest point, when the coil is finished. Now it will be seen that. since the plate 155 is held at the point 157 this upward swinging of the forward end of the carriage will cause the lower corner of plate 155 to move forward, the forward upper corner to move in an upwardly-inclined direction, and the third cornor to move in a rearwardly-inclined direction, the plate meanwhile turning on the point 157. This will maintain the same angular relation of the incline 154 with respect to the slide 119, but it will hold the incline down while the carriage moves upward, thus widening the distance between the incline and the axis of crank-arm 152, so that after each upward swinging movement of the carriage at the completion of a layer of the coil the crank-pin 153 will drop lower and consequently must travel farther rearward on the incline 154 in order to release the hook 150 from the hook'105. In the operation of the machine the slide 99 goes forward, takes hold of hook 150, and pulls slide 119 back with it,

and with each movement the carriage changes its position with respect to the inclined plate 154, so that hook 150 is released a little later each time and the carriage left standing at little farther to the rear each time. The forward movement of slide 119 is limited by the stop-bracket 160.

Referring now to the shaft 110, which is mounted in brackets on the cross-piece 102, forming part of the slide 99, it was stated that the crank 111 is adapted to strike a stop to oscillate shaft and actuate the rod 117. This stop consists of an angular plate 116, ar

ranged against the side of the carriage and secured thereto by means of screws 161, passing through horizontal slots in the plate. The plate extends horizontally above the trunnion, down the rear side thereof, and forwardly in ahorizontal direction, where it rests against a pin 162 in the frame which supports the carriage. The opposite end of the plate-is provided with a stop shoulder 163, against which the pin 112 of the crank-arm strikes. 111 forward toward the top 163 the crank is in its normal forwardly-inclined position. (Shown in Figs. 13 and 14.) When the crank strikes the stop 163, rod 117 is pushed forward and the roller 141 carried forward also. Now with each movement of the slide 99, as before stated, the front of the carriage lifts a little and the lower end of plate 116 is pushed against the fixed pin 162, and the whole plate is moved bodily rearward to an extent depending upon the elevation of the carriage. This brings the shoulder 163 nearer to the crank 111, and the crank strikes it earlier on each trip and is moved farther by it, thus causing the roller 141 to move farther forward at each stroke.

The double-lobed cam 56 on the intermittentlysrotatin g shaft 37 acts, as before stated, upon a lever 57, imparting thereto a quick backward-and-forward motion at each operation. The upper end of lever 57 connects with a rod 164, which leads forward to the middle of a yoke-shaped frame 165. This frame consists of a horizontal cross-piece, L-shaped in cross-section for strength and with its arms 166 extending vertically upward on each side of the forward end of the carriage and carrying between them a rubber-covered roller 167, which normally rests upon a plate 168, extending horizontally across the front lip of the carriage and supported along its rear edge by a bar 169, pivotally attached to the carriage, so that the forward edge of the plate can swing or yield slightly in a vertical direction, it being held in its normal position by a spring 170. The strip of paper operated upon by the machine is fed forward onto the top of this plate 168 and is held thereon by the downward pressure of the roller 167. At a certain instant in the operation of the machine this roller 167 moves forward in contact with the paper to push the paper toward the winding-spindle, and for this purpose the shaft of the roller is provided with a ratchet and pawl 171, which prevents the roller from turning on its axis.

in making this forward movement, but permits it to turn or roll during its backward movement. The cross-piece of the yoke 165 is pivoted at 172 in a horizontal yoke 173, the arms of which extend rearwardly and are pivoted at 174 to the outside of the carriage. The point of connection between the rod 164 and the yoke 165 is immediately below the pivot 172 in a tailpiece attached to the middle point of the yoke. The cross-piece of the yoke is provided at the middle with a rearwardlyextending tongue 175, underneath which is secured a spring 176, forming an in clined cam having a track 177, of limited length, along one edge. This track is adapted to be engaged by the laterally-projecting pin 101 when the post 98 moves forward, and

While slide 99 is carrying the crank IIO in this engagement it will be seen that the 

